Warhammer: In the Name of the Emperor

Vito walked in the long valley. The yellow sand was flying in the wind and blowing over the mountains. It also blew from the towering mountain statues. The tall statues blocked the path of the yellow sand and allowed the gravel to pull on the statues. A sparse but long sand line emerged.

They walked in this valley lined with giant statues. Those exotic statues stood on both sides. They were almost integrated with the valley. Years of wind and sand have completely turned its surface into the color of the desert. In the past, it was like a desert. The exquisite pendants and decorations have long been worn and covered and have disappeared.

Above the head is a wide and long valley chasm. The yellow sand blows from the top of the valley like a light yellow gauze curtain. The roaring wind sounds in the valley from time to time, playing ethereal music in the weathered exposed rock cavities. .

Vito looked at these burly statues. Their faces were carved very delicately. Some held the classical scepter of life, while others had animal heads or bodies. These ancient giant soldiers guarded the passage of the valley. Their figures look so tall in the yellow sand.

Ancient statues line the temple that stretches toward the end of the valley, toward the entrance to the massive temple.

Vito's boots walked across the sand, and the sand was constantly being lifted up with his footsteps. He held the golden compass in his hand and walked towards the temple at the end. The golden pointer pointed in that direction, pointing to the temple. .

Vito arrived in front of the temple. He raised his head and looked up at the temple itself, which was carved out of the mountain. A miraculous architectural structure was carved out on the nearly half-kilometer-long cliff cross section, each strip like a Tower of Babel. Stone pillars rise from the ground and extend along the mountain to the top of the cliff, with hieroglyphs carved on them with huge text symbols.

Soaring eagles, ferocious gnolls and ferrymen on the river, unknown symbols are carved on the light yellow stone pillars. Each symbol is taller than a Space Marine. It is difficult to imagine how they were carved.

Standing between the stone pillars are larger statues. Their size is much larger than those in the valley, and they are also more exquisite and rich. They are surrounded like kings, queens and nobles, wearing classical robes and headdresses. The crown is also very unique. The images of peacocks and eagles are carved on it, as if they are soaring above their heads.

Yellow sand is blowing across the cross-section, and the cut and extended sand turns into an illusory curtain, like a hazy veil covering the face of a charming woman.

Vito walked forward to the entrance gate of the temple. He looked into the dark space inside. Ragnar and Lancelot also walked behind Vito and looked inside. The two lowered their heads and looked behind Vito. The reader nodded affirmatively, and the Space Marine immediately turned on the light on his helmet. A bright beam of light shot into the dim temple, and Vito also took the lead and walked into it.

Vito looked at the things shrouded in darkness around him. The ancient stone pillars and walls were carved with hieroglyphs, and symbolic pictures slowly unfolded along the walls.

It describes a story. Once upon a time, there was a king. He was wise and knowledgeable and taught his people farming and civilization on the ancient land. He led his people to create a great country, a country that shines like the sun. Immortal Kingdom.

The king was very satisfied. He thought that his people already had and understood everything, so the king left his throne and palace, and his country to find and explore thousands of worlds, looking for more knowledge and truth. The king traveled across the stars like The sea of ​​sand and the long river of stars.

After a long exploration, the king decided to return to his own country to see what kind of glorious country his people had created. The king traveled thousands of miles back to the kingdom from a distant land, but what he saw was his own son. The people fell into mutual suspicion and hatred, and they launched endless wars with each other to destroy the country.

The king was heartbroken. He didn't know what he had done wrong to be like this. The king wandered in the desert land. He walked and walked and finally met an ancient elder in a robe. He held a flaming scepter and talked to the king. When they met, the old man told the king that there was a power in an ancient land. That power could clear away chaos and turmoil, and bring civilization and prosperity back to the world.

The king was overjoyed and immediately took a long boat across the galaxy to that unknown ancient land. Here he met the four masters here. They listened to the king's request and he hoped to bring power back to his country. There was chaos there, but the four masters were unwilling to give their power to the king, so the king stole the power by deception and robbery.

The four masters issued a curse to the king. They cursed that the king would fail just when everything was about to succeed, that the deepest and most desperate darkness would envelope his land, and that he would be tortured by his dark future forever.

The king returned to his country. He found his old friends and comrades-in-arms, and a brave ranger general joined him on his journey. Together they started a vast journey.

Vito stopped at the last part of the mural. He reached out and touched the patterns on the wall. The hieroglyphics vividly showed everything. He touched the general on the mural. He held his sword and looked at the endless starry sky with the king. , and around them were twenty children, who were also looking at the boundless brilliant stars.

Vito continued forward and walked out of the dim corridor. He walked through a long and narrow door and came to the central area of ​​the temple. There were tall colonnades and collapsed statues. The statues of the ancient gods had long since collapsed, and their bodies were covered with yellow sand. Submerged only half of the face or part of the body can still be seen.

The sun's rays shone from the open-air dome overhead, and the sunlight continued to reflect on the sand-white walls. The bright light finally completely illuminated the dim space, shrouding the walls and stone pillars in hazy yellowish sunlight.

Vito slid forward from the ground that had long been buried in the sand. His boots kicked up a large cloud of dust on the sand, and the two Space Marines and Lilith also slid down the sandy slope.

Vito walked to the center of the temple, and the sun shone down from the top of his head, illuminating his whole body like a curtain of light. Vito stood in the light and looked at the long stairs leading deeper, which were covered with yellow sand. and gravel, and a three-dimensional white eagle with spread wings is carved on the top gate pillar.

Vito immediately started to walk towards the entrance, but all the surrounding gravel shook, and air currents rolled in from each colonnade, raising a cloud of sand and dust on the ground.

He raised his head and looked at the top of his head. He saw the thing that caused all this. They were a number of flying saucers that sprayed blue fire. On those flying saucers stood mages holding staffs. They roared down from the sky of the temple from above their heads. Countless spell attacks were launched.

Blue light bullets hit Vito, but Lilith summoned a shield above her head with a wave of her backhand. Ragnar and Lancelot both pulled out their bolt guns and immediately fired at the intruders above their heads. shooting.

The explosive bomb hit one of the flying saucers. The exploding flying saucer sprayed out blue flames and hit the stone pillars. The falling wreckage hit the ground heavily, but the entrance behind the crash point lit up with countless lights. A pair of eyes accompanied by crazy laughter rang out from the darkness.

"Dread Monster, this is a trap as expected." Vito smiled bitterly and pulled out the bolt gun. He was about to pick up the gun and fight with Ragnar and Lancelot when Lilith raised her hand and put the gun away. After pressing it down, she tilted her head toward the door deep in the temple.

"You go in and get the artifact. Lancelot, Ragnar, I and I will block the Tzeentch ambush." ​​Lilith said as a light of psychic energy moved between her fingers.

Vito looked at Lilith in confusion, "Lily, I can't." "Go in." She didn't give herself any chance to discuss, not at all, and Vito also knew what it would mean if Lilith said that.

He didn't know, but he still chose to trust her. Vito inserted the bolter into his holster, turned around and took a few steps back to look at the ambush soldiers, "Hold here, I'll be back soon."

"Go ahead Inquisitor, we can handle it." Ragnar laughed and pulled the trigger, bright bolter fire shooting into the dark door and Lilith's purple light flickering.

Vito turned around and ran up the long stairs to the deepest part of the temple.